A concert experience unlike any other. Valentina Peleggi leads the Richmond Symphony, Chorus, and soloists in Mahler’s monumental Symphony Number Two. Music by George Walker begins the program.

A concert experience unlike any other. Valentina Peleggi leads the Richmond Symphony, Chorus, and soloists in Mahler’s monumental Symphony Number Two. Music by George Walker begins the program.

Michelle Cann plays Chopin’s heart aching First Piano Concerto. Tito Muñoz conducts a masterpiece by the tragically short-lived Lili Boulanger, and Sir Edward Elgar’s great and noble “Enigma Variations,” a Victorian Facebook of family and friends.

Michelle Cann plays Chopin’s heart aching First Piano Concerto. Tito Muñoz conducts a masterpiece by the tragically short-lived Lili Boulanger, and Sir Edward Elgar’s great and noble “Enigma Variations,” a Victorian Facebook of family and friends.

From Broadway to Motown to Hollywood, N’Kenge salutes the divas of jazz, opera, pop, and soul. With her astonishing five-octave voice, N’Kenge pays tribute to Billie Holiday, Leontyne Price, Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Ross, Whitney Houston, Beyonce, and others. Barry Gordy heard N’Kenge and declared her “the most versatile artist I know.”

Few works can match it for sonic impact or sheer excitement. And no work displays the virtuosity of the Richmond Symphony like Pictures at an Exhibition. Experience it – live – under guest conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya, who also leads works by American masters John Adams, James Lee III, and Florence Price.

Few works can match it for sonic impact or sheer excitement. And no work displays the virtuosity of the Richmond Symphony like Pictures at an Exhibition. Experience it under guest conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya.